Isaiah 40:23

Isa 40:23 That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.

Ver. 23. That bringeth princes to nothing. ] After their part acted here a while, they go off the stage of life, and are seen no more. Augustus Caesar said, that his life was nothing else but a kind of a comedy; and that he had acted his part, as became him, and therefore, at his death, he called for a Plaudite. applause.